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Everyone: Worlds Without Walls, Calls for Papers, Etc.
Blech! Very sick here. So many are! The ick is making the rounds. 'Tis the season, I suppose. My husband is two weeks into it and he still has little voice and lots of coughing. I'm just in week one, full of antibiotics. Joy! /Whinging
I hope all of you are well, my friends!
Here are several cool Calls for Papers for anyone so inclined:
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Happy birthday, Ray Bradbury!
Happy birthday to Ray Bradbury (22 August, 1920 - 5 June, 2012)!
"They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, ( Read more... ) -
Come and Get The Demon of Brockenheim!
Recently Gary Dowell, editor of the wonderful Far Fetched Fables: The Audio Fantasy Fiction Magazine (sibling to StarShipSofa), invited me to contribute a fantasy-related "Looking Back on Genre History" to his podcast. It occurred to me that this was the perfect opportunity to share with everyone an almost-but-not-quite-lost work of epic Gothic ( Read more... ) -
I Come Bearing Gifts: The Demon of Brockenheim
Recently Gary Dowell, editor of the wonderful Far Fetched Fables: The Audio Fantasy Fiction Magazine (sibling to StarShipSofa), invited me to contribute a fantasy-related "Looking Back on Genre History" to his podcast. It occurred to me that this was the perfect opportunity to share with everyone an almost-but-not-quite-lost work of epic Gothic ( Read more... ) -
Severus Snape, Moby Dick, and H.P. Lovecraft
Three things today that are awesome:
1. H.P. Lovecraft’s copy of the famous novel Moby Dick has been found.
2. There's a new Harry Potter movie coming out, and Snape fans will love it.
3. And last but not least, one of my graduate students, Mark Lachniet, made this film on "The 'Real' Science of Lovecraft's 'The Colour Out of Space'"! Woohoo!
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Pooh, Pooh-Pooh, and Snapery
Curtis Weyant, who is both an all-around terrific guy and my former graduate student, addresses Michael Moorcock's (in)famous "Epic Pooh" essay and its assertions about J.R.R. Tolkien's work in his latest blog post.
And now, here are the most important film scenes about Severus Snape - in chronological order. Watch this. For reasons.
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Wrock, Retail Therapy, Books, and Glasses
Looking ahead to a class discussion of wizard rock (or "wrock"), I was pleased to see that the We Are Wizards documentary is now available on YouTube. There are also trailers and clips from The Wizard Rockumentary: A Movie About Rocking and Rowling on the official website ( Read more... )
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